Colonel Accused Of Being Russian Spy For 20 Years

Story by: Aleksandra Stefanova, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Picture credit: CENA retired Austrian colonel has been accused of spying on behalf of the Russians for 20 years and receiving over 200,000 GBP for supplying sensitive information. Local media said that it is the biggest spy scandal to have rocked Austria…

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Over 30 On Trial For Systematic Abuse At Asylum Centre

Story by: Aleksandra Stefanova, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Picture credit: CEN Over 30 people are on trial for the systematic abuse of residents at an asylum centre after a photo of a security guard standing on a restrained resident’s neck was leaked.A major trial with over 30 defendants being charged…

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Breastfeeding Mum Thrown Out Of Zara Store

Story by: Aleksandra Stefanova, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Twenty-two-year-old Stefanie Graedel says she was discretely nursing her six-month-old son when she was spotted by a security guard. He asked her to leave the store, in the Shoppi Tivoli shopping centre in the small city of Spreitenbach in the northern Swiss…

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Hungry OAP Butchers Wild Pig In Berlin Car Park

Story by: Aleksandra Stefanova, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Picture credit: CEN A hungry German pensioner who tried to turn a friendly wild boar into sausages has been arrested after he cut off its head with an axe in a supermarket car park in Berlin. The 80-year-old man had persuaded his…

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New Exoskeleton Offers Greater Mobility For Paraplegics

Story by: Aleksandra Stefanova, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Video credit: CEN/EPFL A team of scientists has developed a groundbreaking exoskeleton that paraplegics can put on themselves without needing anyone to help. Scientists at EPFL’s Robotic Systems Laboratory (LSRO) in Lausanne in Switzerland have now unveiled video of the new version…

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